IBP will be welcoming a number of guest bloggers in the coming months to report on the 2008 Presidential campaign. Our first guest blogger is the venerable C.W. Eversham, who has reported on every American presidential campaign since Dwight Eisenhower's re-election in 1956. No less an authority than author, Theodore White, once dubbed Eversham as "the crustiness on the American political baguette."
After more than a half century of filing dispatches from the Granite State, I am still left to ponder the question of whether the state's moniker was derived from what surely must be between an inhabitant's ears to willingly exile oneself to a life in this grim backwater. The cold - that is what I shall remember of New Hampshire on my deathbed - the cold.
Today, I was subjected to the spectacle of Senator Hillary Clinton becoming emotionally distraught over a softball question as to "how she does it". Combined with her performance at Saturday night's debate, when she became unhinged with anger, she has ably demonstrated why most Americans are not ready to have a gal as President. As I have counseled younger media members looking to draw on my experience, never forget that the word "hysterical" comes from the Greek word for "woman". (Ergo "hysterectomy".)
As for her main competitor, Senator Barack Obama, much less running for President, in my day, he would not have been allowed to
(ISP NOTE: The transmission of C.W. Eversham terminated here for what we are assuming are technical reasons. )
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